Systematic Mythology

Author : Jennifer Agee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532648168

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Humans are composed of poetic tissues as surely as physical ones. Our identities, worldviews, longings—all are drawn and developed from the unique relationships and texts we encounter and incorporate. We collect and imagine stories and creatively build them into the tale of ourselves. But each of these personal mythologies is irrevocably lost at death—unless it is true, as Christianity claims, that God raises the dead. Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible studies the ways in which we make meaning. It argues that God must be the ultimate subject of every person’s essential myth, so that Christ may redeem and resurrect our stories as well as our bodies. Systematic mythology calls us to consciously and creatively participate in the story God is telling through our cosmos and its inhabitants: a story in which Christ is all, and in all.

Author : Jennifer Agee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532648182

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Systematic Mythology by Jennifer Agee Pdf

Humans are composed of poetic tissues as surely as physical ones. Our identities, worldviews, longings--all are drawn and developed from the unique relationships and texts we encounter and incorporate. We collect and imagine stories and creatively build them into the tale of ourselves. But each of these personal mythologies is irrevocably lost at death--unless it is true, as Christianity claims, that God raises the dead. Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible studies the ways in which we make meaning. It argues that God must be the ultimate subject of every person's essential myth, so that Christ may redeem and resurrect our stories as well as our bodies. Systematic mythology calls us to consciously and creatively participate in the story God is telling through our cosmos and its inhabitants: a story in which Christ is all, and in all.

Author : Sophie Bønding,Lone Kølle Martinsen,Pierre-Brice Stahl
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9788772194646

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Mythology and Nation Building by Sophie Bønding,Lone Kølle Martinsen,Pierre-Brice Stahl Pdf

Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception at the time. Each embedded in their particular national and political contexts, towering cultural figures – N.F.S. Grundtvig, Jacob Grimm, Jonás Halgrímsson, William Morris, Adam Oehlenschläger and many more – were catalysts for the formation of national discourses of belonging, built upon the mythological story-worlds of Europe’s non-classical vernacular pasts. This interdisciplinary book offers new perspectives on the uses of pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national communities in nineteenth-century Northern and Western Europe. Through theoretical articles and case studies, it puts forth new understandings of how cultural thinkers across Europe utilized pre-Christian mythologies as symbolic resources in the forging of national communities. Perceptions of national identity were thus shaped, many of which are still at play today.

Author : Lihui Yang,Deming An
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195332636

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Handbook of Chinese Mythology by Lihui Yang,Deming An Pdf

Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.

Author : N. D. R. Chandra,Nigamananda Das
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 8176257427

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Ecology, Myth, and Mystery by N. D. R. Chandra,Nigamananda Das Pdf

Author : Ken Dowden,Niall Livingstone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118785164

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A Companion to Greek Mythology by Ken Dowden,Niall Livingstone Pdf

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece

Author : Rudolf Bultmann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451417888

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New Testament Mythology and Other Basic Writings by Rudolf Bultmann Pdf

Aside from the fact that it is perhaps the single most discussed and controversial theological writing of the century, no one knowledgeable of Bultmann's work could doubt its basic importance for his entire contribution. Although the position is for which it argues was hardly new, having already taken shape in several of his theological essays written during the 1920s, it is nevertheless the classic formulation of this position and as such incomparable in the Bultmann corpus.

Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137552822

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Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy by Dimitra Fimi Pdf

Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.

Author : James R. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803298609

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Lakota Myth by James R. Walker Pdf

James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. This edition includes classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's own literary cycle based on all he had learned about Lakota myth. Lakota Myth is an indispensable source for students of comparative literature, religion, and mythology, as well as those interested in Lakota culture.

Author : Ken Dowden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134926282

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The Uses of Greek Mythology by Ken Dowden Pdf

In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and stimulating.

Author : Raphael Falco
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441100474

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Charisma and Myth by Raphael Falco Pdf

Charisma and Myth combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life. Through scores of examples ranging from Inuit myth to Christian theology, from Malinowski to martyrology, Charisma and Myth argues definitively that the survival of myth systems mirrors the survival of such charismatic groups as modern street gangs, the Anglo-Saxon comitatus, or Satan's fallen angels in Paradise Lost. Even the smallest charismatic group generates its own set of myths, and, like larger myth systems, depends on continual revolutionary change - not, as might be expected, on the stability of its myths - to survive and to achieve longevity. As this innovative study shows, group leaders must learn first to foster and then to manage the mild chaos and changing symbols of their myths. Charisma and Myth challenges myth theorists from the nineteenth through to the twenty-first century and adds a missing component to our understanding of how and why myths continue to grip our imaginations.

Author : Charles E. Lance,Charles E Lance,Robert J Vandenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135269654

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Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends by Charles E. Lance,Charles E Lance,Robert J Vandenberg Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are characterized by manuscript critiques such as: (a) "your self-report measures suffer from common method bias"; (b) "your item-to-subject ratios are too low"; (c) "you can’t generalize these findings to the real world"; or (d) "your effect sizes are too low". Historically, there is a kernel of truth to most of these legends, but in many cases that truth has been long forgotten, ignored or embellished beyond recognition. This book examines several such legends. Each chapter is organized to address: (a) what the legend is that "we (almost) all know to be true"; (b) what the "kernel of truth" is to each legend; (c) what the myths are that have developed around this kernel of truth; and (d) what the state of the practice should be. This book meets an important need for the accumulation and integration of these methodological and statistical practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0004030722

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The Month and Catholic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79285628

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Month and Catholic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martyn Hammersley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446291719

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The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice by Martyn Hammersley Pdf

Martyn Hammersley's provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement. Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research can directly serve policymaking and practice. Key questions explored include: - Is scientific research evidence-based? - What counts as evidence for evidence-based practice? - Is social measurement possible, and is it necessary? - What are the criteria by which qualitative research should be judged? The book also discusses the case for action research, the nature of systematic reviews, proposals for interpretive reviews, and the process of qualitative synthesis. Highly readable and undeniably relevant, this book is a valuable resource for both academics and professionals involved with research.